A GARDEN FLORA 
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*0. nitida. New Zealand. 
Height 9 feet, width 10 feet. 0. nitida has grown 
into a large and somewhat straggling bush, which 
reaches the top of a south wall. It flowers every 
year, and needs no protection, though it was 
damaged by frost, for the first time, four or five 
years after being planted in the open. 
0. nummulariifolia. New Zealand. 
|0. semidentata. New Zealand. 
0. stellulata. Tasmania. 
Syn. 0. gunniana and Eurybia gunniana. 
0. virgata. New Zealand. 
Height 11 feet. This is the true virgata with the 
four-angled stems. It is a wiry and attenuated 
shrub, unlike most Olearias. It has stood two winters 
in the open. 
OMPHALODES. Navel-wort. Boraginacese. 
0. verna. Creeping Forget-me-not. Europe. 
„ var. alba. 
ONONIS. Leguminosse. 
0. fruticosa. S. Europe. 
0. rotundifolia. S. and Central Europe. 
OPHIOPOGON. Snake’s Beard. Hsemodoracese. 
0. Jaburan, var. variegatua. Japan. 
0. japonicus. Herb Turquoise. Japan. 
OPLIS MENUS. Graminese. 
fO. Burmanni, var. variegatua. Tropics. 
Syn. Panicum variegatum. 
OPUNTIA. Cactaceae. 
*0. arborescena. S. United States. 
*0. arenaria. N. Mexico. 
*0. braziliensis. Brazil. 
